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Turning Visitors into Customers: Maximising Retail Potential for Museums

sgEngage

Museum shops can and should be more than just walls of collection postcards and bins of branded pencils. With captive audiences, a link to the creative, and consistent footfall, shops in museums have ample opportunity to maximise retail potential by offering products that appeal to visitors and have a clear connection to collections. .

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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

This guide is a great place to start to generate ideas for items and packages that will captivate your audience at your next auction event. Recently, modernist and impressionist paintings have been selling particularly well in the art world. Art that has personal meaning for your community is also a safe bet.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! To some people, these events may sound like losers.

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Talking Through Objects: The Dog Analogy

Museum 2.0

I'm gearing up for some conference talks next month, and one of these is part of a very cool session, Eye on Design, at the Western Museums Association conference. The coordinator asked several folks to pick a design trend from outside the museum world and discuss how they might be applied to museum design. But I rarely do.

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There’s Something Sticky Here…

Museum 2.0

Museums can’t be viral. So where should sticky live in the museum? But the way the software allows you to drag your viewing window around the map is so fun, so excellent, that the program becomes captivating. I sat here for awhile trying to think of museum experiences I’ve seen that are sticky, not gimmicky.

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Hiring A Google Grants Manager: A Guide & 9 Agencies

Nonprofits Source

If outsourcing the work sounds like an offer you can’t refuse, take the time to find an agency that offers the exact services and expertise your team needs. In turn, you’ll receive an optimized account filled with ad groups, keywords, and captivating ads.

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Interview with Elisa Giaccardi

Museum 2.0

Elisa’s focus is interactive arts, media design, and cultural management, and she has been involved in many pertinent projects, such as MUVI (the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia). She talked about how hard it was to get different social groups to share perspectives on how sound should be managed.